there is a way to upgrade your pango but it may affect other programs you already have installed. Did once before can't remember what affect it had. Just got home from work let me sleep awhile maybe I can remember._________________Live and Let Live

Pango = font system, right? I was searching and couple or three years ago there was a post suggesting disabling Pango when Seamonkey/Mozilla/Firefox was started. Made it run faster on older machines or if the version of pango isnt compatible. So does Chrome absolutely require Pango or could it be simularly disabled?

Ok, here is command:

export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 and has to be put into mozilla-bin file before it calls seamonkey-bin file.

Is there a way to do this on chrome? And still leave Chrome functional? Somebody mentioned using it on a non-mozilla related program that was throwing up same error but no details.

I am using full expanded install of Puppy. To try Chrome with the newer Pango, will boot from cd and create a save file on spare hard drive so I dont endanger current Puppy install. But be couple or so days. Alas, there are higher priority things in my life at the moment.

I did not know that you had a full install so you are using a smart move. Let me know how it goes to that others can learn from what you find out. I started to download 4.2 myself but the server was a little busy. And I slept late tonight so not much time and will have to go back to work. May do it tomorrow night._________________Live and Let Live

I am unable to test Puppy 4.2 on my little laptop it does not support my wife card so the best I can suggest is you do a frugal install of 4.2 on your system and then try and see if the upgrade of pango affects anything on your system.

Installed Pango 1.22.3-pup4.pet Did bad things to 4.2, crashed the Puppy package manager and wouldnt let me shut down properly and I dont know what all. I was glad I didnt try that with my current Puppy full install, been nightmare trying to straighten it out.

I'll just have to wait until I get broadband access some time and download newer Puppy in order to try Chrome browser.

I am glad that you test it that way too. That is why one of the reason I do mainly frugal install, that and I keep developing newer MyWolfe distro and it would be a real pain to install full install all the time._________________Live and Let Live

I would be more than happy to help but I do need more information. Which puppy version are you using would help and also can you open a term window and type google-chrome and tell me what it says._________________Live and Let Live